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The price of local government: City of Golconda

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The City of Golconda budget was $2.11 million for its 2015 fiscal year, or $6,316.98 per household.

That's a decrease of one percent from 2014, when the city spent $2.13 million, or $6,378.91 per household.

Golconda has 334 households and a population of 668.

Since 2001, the City of Golconda budget has grown by 27.4 percent, from $1.66 million. The city population has fallen 19 percent over the same period, from 825.

Salaries accounted for 8.4 percent of city spending in 2015. Golconda property taxpayers paid $176,404.92 for four full-time employees and 13 part-time employees.

In 2001, the city had five full-time employees and four part-time employees, and spent $163,451.96.

Year
Population
Budget
Salaries
Salary %
# Employees
$$ Per Employee
2015
668
$2,109,870
$176,404.92
8.4
17
$10,376.76
2014
668
$2,130,555
$163,211.74
7.7
18
$9,067.31
2013
668
$2,151,240
$149,579.04
7
15
$9,971.93
2012
668
$2,192,610
$151,706.14
6.9
18
$8,428.11
2011
638
$2,228,580
$151,522.92
6.8
18
$8,417.94
2010
825
$1,884,225
$146,930.70
7.8
18
$8,162.81
2009
825
$1,850,375
$146,466.08
7.9
18
$8,137
2008
825
$1,674,095
$135,522.03
8.1
83
$1,632.79
2007
825
$1,597,689.99
$136,164.60
8.5
6
$22,694.10
2006
825
$1,920,600
$141,633.60
7.4
6
$23,605.59
2005
825
$1,843,880
$152,185.20
8.3
6
$25,364.20
2004
825
$3,074,070
$147,386.37
4.8
6
$24,564.39
2003
825
$1,690,590
$155,496
9.2
6
$25,915.99
2002
825
$4,020,637.50
$168,296.40
4.2
9
$18,699.60
2001
825
$1,655,576.50
$163,451.96
9.9
9
$18,161.32

All values in this story are inflation-adjusted real values.

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